Meaning of Murphy's law | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Murphy's law.
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Examples

“I ran into the perfect exemplification of “Murphy's law” at one university, where everything that could go wrong did!”

“Thus we find that Murphy's Law is not a coincidence at all, but the consequence of a deep ‘anthropomurphic^([sic]) principle’: any universe built along conventional lines that contains intelligent polymurphs will conform to Murphy's Law.”

“‘It was an application of Murphy's Law,’ said one Vatican dignitary in a resigned voice. What was Murphy's Law? ‘Murphy's Law,’ said the dignitary, ‘is that everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.’”

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